Wiltshire v Surrey - May 04
Wiltshire beat Surrey on May 16th in the quarter-final of the
National Minor County Championship, and will now meet
Norfolk on June 13th in the semi-final. Wiltshire looked
comfortable for most of the match, but eventually were
relieved to scrape through on board count. Mark Jones'
loss was negated by Nick Wingfield's win leaving us ahead
by Tim Headlong's win by default. Andrew Bosworth's game
looked comfortably won, but he blundered and lost the game
to leave the match tight. Sven had all sorts of fun around
the opposing king in the middle game and missed at least
one win. He arrived in a rook ending which rapidly
deteriorated from better to equal to lost. Peter somehow
managed to salvage a draw with knight and 3 pawns
against rook and 3 pawns to enable David to grind out the
win which put us through on board count.
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| Wiltshire | 16-May-04 | Surrey |
| Charles Cobb (231) | ½-½ | S Berry (213) |
| Andrew Law (207) | ½-½ | C Briscoe (186) |
| Sven Zeidler (200) | 0-1 | A Punnett (184) |
| Tim Headlong (200) | 1-0 | default |
| Peter Richmond (196) | ½-½ | D Rowson (179) |
| Richard Haydon (196) | ½-½ | D Rosen (177) |
| Johnathan Bourne (179) | ½-½ | J Shepley (173) |
| David Bareham (173) | 1-0 | M Smith (171) |
| Andrew Cooper (170) | ½-½ | D Hill (164) |
| Pablo Padilla | ½-½ | D Stimpson (155) |
| Mark Jones (159) | 0-1 | C Clegg (155) |
| Nick Wingfield (157) | 1-0 | P Barnard (155) |
| Dan Hall (145) | ½-½ | J Wilcox (151) |
| Andrew Bosworth (136) | 0-1 | I Deswale (147) |
| Josh Hall (129) | ½-½ | J Nyman (142) |
| Richard Carver (109) | ½-½ | R Piggott (131) |
| 8 - 8 |
Diagram #10
Nick Wingfield, black to play, found a way to win at least a
piece. What did he play?
Thanks to Peter Richmond for the report.